blackbird spring 2002 vol.1 no. 1

FICTION

SCOTT YARBROUGH

Scott Yarbrough is a graduate of the writing program at Florida State University and holds a PhD in American Literature from the University of Alabama. His fiction has appeared in Flyway, Iron Horse Literary Review, Main Street Rag, the Clackamas Literary Review, New Orleans Review, Thirteen Stories, Apalachee Quarterly, and 42Opus. A story in storySouth was nominated for a Pushcart and chosen as a “whale sighting” by Moby Lives. In 2004 he attended the Sewanee Writer’s Conference as a Tennessee Williams Scholar; he has published articles and nonfiction in such journals as Black Warrior Review, The Southern Literary Journal, South Atlantic Review, and The Faulkner Journal. He has also coauthored a textbook, A Practical Introduction to Literary Study (Prentice Hall, 2005). He currently teaches at Charleston Southern University and lives just outside Charleston, South Carolina.